#there was food and energy drinks and movies and just dance and dodgeball/volleyball tournaments and even laser tag once

[shorlinesorrows]

kind of ashamed there isn't more lock-in aus in fanfic

i feel like we should be doing better as a collective

#idk maybe other areas just don't do them #but they were something that happened at my high school a couple times #as well as the local library #if you don't know what a lock-in is: #basically all of the high schoolers who wanted to participate would check into the school around 9pm #then they would get 'locked in' for the night and try to stay awake until 5am when the doors reopened #there was food and energy drinks and movies and just dance and dodgeball/volleyball tournaments and even laser tag once #you could run around the hallways and people made nests out of the blankets and pillows they brought #and there were crafts and stuff #it was actually really fun #and everyone was SUPER sleep deprived by the end so I had some really Random conversations with complete strangers #i feel like the potential of these things is being wasted #it has excellent meet-cute potential both platonic and romantic #and it doesn't even have to be for high school #you could make it a work lock-in or a college lock-in or a fundraiser lock-in where all the proceeds go to charity #our local library did one where parents could check in their kids for the night and all proceeds went to library funding #obviously there was chaperones because a million 10 year olds could destroy a library on their own #but still #wasted potential #fanfiction #fanfic writing #fanfic tropes #fanfic #fanfic authors #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 writer #archive of our own